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5 statements
01Evidence and context
After 1570 ritual-murder trials declined through imperial protection, self-defense, and new ideas.
Popular belief in blood libel endured long after trials declined.
The Thirty Years' War stalemate strengthened pragmatic state politics.
State economic interests contributed to Jewish life's return to western Europe.
More tolerant Protestant currents helped prepare Jewish readmission to England.
Context
The Thirty Years' War stalemate strengthened pragmatic state politics. More tolerant Protestant currents helped prepare Jewish readmission to England.
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Murder (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).
The ritual-murder myth · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 237
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 236inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 236inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 236inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 236inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 236inspect
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